UTILITY OF THE NATIVE-RELIANCE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, MODEL, AND QUESTIONNAIRE.

Native American culturally-originated theories, particularly those that are available to guide research conducted within Native American populations, are limited. Native-Reliance has emerged as a culturally derived theoretical framework, model, and questionnaire, and has been found to be useful in several studies that guide and measure how culture influences the health equity and well-being of Native Americans. This article reports on the development of the Native-Reliance theory along with results from a recent study that examined the impact of Native-Reliance in relation to substance use among Native American adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]